Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

EXE header size: 56320 / 35328 bytes
Install code: (348557 bytes)
Install data: (597955679 bytes)
Uninstall code+data: (119266 bytes)
Compressed data: 168500307 / 598423502 bytes
CRC (0xC14D9180): 4 / 4 bytes

Total size: 168556631 / 598458834 bytes (28.2%)[/size][/font]

- numbers, numbers telling us that 160 MB are the current dimensions for todays build of Fleet Operations v3 pre release version.

With them i'd like to announce a new sub category here on the Fleet Operations forum called Developers Diary (sorry i didn't came up with an idea for a better name :D). This category is for you. For you to see what we are doing every day in Fleet Operations Development. Yes, we put these nice articles from time to time on our main news page, but these are not to be compared to these we intend to post here. If we feel to get direct feedback by you for something we are just working on (remember we had a design vote for a vessel in a thread long time ago) or feel just like to inform you about something that isn't as important to be put on the main news page but deserves a place somewhere.
Oh, and if you don't like the name of our new category, have suggestions etc. please post them to the Site quality forum, thanks guys ;)

(http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/_thb_installerv3.jpg) (http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/installerv3.jpg)
The shiny new installer with exactly 6828 instructions - again based on Nullsoft's Install System

Now, back to the numbers. The installer, the first thing you will see before you can play Fleet Operations. You remember you downloaded beta 2 with like 94 MB. The v3 installer will have around 160 MB. That doesn't sound much (atleast for those on broadband connections) but you have to consider, comparing the final installed directories after installation of both versions we have around 200 MB more data uncompressed in our package - not to forget we do copy about 32mb less from the armada II cd iself and providing a basic animated intro for the first time with Fleet Operations. That means we do have much more content in Fleet Operations v3 than before, much more than the difference between beta 1.x and beta 2 was.

New also is a requirement checker. It compares your system specs with the ones minimum and recommended for Fleet Operations (these two data may not be up to date with the thread discussing this issue) selecting optimal settings for your system with 6 different system preset files from low res to high res (currently named "FleetOps Marks" - more or less a temporary description ;))

(http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/_thb_installerhr.jpg) (http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/installerhr.jpg)
The more or less temporary Hardware requirements screen

The first thing you may notice after starting the Fleet Operations setup is that this time we abandoned the nice wallpaper sized backgrounds which were thought as some entertainment during the very long installation process we all know from beta 2 - "Decoding audio". Ripping out the Wallpapers doesn't only save space but also they are not needed anymore. We do not depend on a 3rd party solution taking like forever decoding some audio files but now using an in-house solution made for the Fleet Operations installer using much more faster dll calls and is based on the BASS audio system by un4seen developments making decoding now like 3-5 times faster than it was with beta 2.

(http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/_thb_installerda.jpg) (http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Development/installerda.jpg)
"Decoding Audio" - Now as fast 'home made' solution with progress bar

good i was tired of waiting for them dame audio files to install ^_^  

I like the idea of having the minimal requirements screen, very wise.  Maybe I'm looking to deeply into this but on the first pic of the installer, those blue streaks, are they supposed to show anything or just there t look nice? :)

yes, just some eye candy ;). it's an opening screen replacing the 'Welcome to the Fleet Operations Setup Wizard' one from older betas.

Nice, I agree about the audi files thing-the thing took like forever :S

sweet man. nise work fo team. i am so exsited about the new mod when it comes out i mite be come so exsited i mite devep a werd minatal disorder. ok maby not that exsited. but i am rittled with anticipation.

i think showing sytom requerments like you have is a realy good idea i think it will reduse confution.

one quechon/sugechon is thare a tool/repare fuction in the instoler or in the game dir?

Thanks for the installer upgrade. Looks very nice!

G.

Is it real that there are still 2 critical tasks remaining? or do i need  to clean my cache?
Because that threat sounds to me like v3 release is very close  ( if u show us these things... ). Is it ready???  :woot:  

I really need a new  ST game...as fast as possible....  :hungry:  

Yes but you know the armada engine 2 critical updates just means once they fix those five more will sprout

very true.

I love the new installer primo work.

Is the A2 engine that annoying and hard to work with?

So will you include the music pack with the main installer this time or is it still a seperate download?

that's just what i was going to ask. but, i would think yes.

it is still planned as seperate download

why?

cause of the size, it's like 30mb more to download for everyone. even those don't want the music or on 56k

and don't forget the cool media-package icon!  ^_^  

Cool so when you release v3 will the music file be realesed at the same time?

you know this is starting to look pretty spiffy

I want V3. Now. Im so bored. :schmoll:  

me too (will haben haben haben)

now plz
GIMME FLEETOPS V3!
plz?

*splats Adamas face with the buisness end of an ice cream cone*
It'll be ready when its ready!

ps HURRY UP WITH V3 I DONT GOT ALL DAY (well acctually, I do, but thats beside the point)

Its approaching new year and it was rumoured to of been released early 05, this means its almost been a year longer than prediced.

However I am happy, as it will be a year better. If the game was released too early it would be buggy and terrible. Would you rather have the old version or a messed up game you can't play.

Then again it has to be said that I am sooo egarly awaiting the release. All I want for christmas is fleetops :(   I am sure it will be worth the wait
 

i dunno lets just get v3 out i wanna play vs the dom

4 of 11 .... Weīll see in Lobby...  :naugthy:

Me Dominion and you Borg. Thatīs a direct challenge!

i can play to with the new rommies!:)

we all waiting for v3

but is v3 still in progress???
it's a long time since one of the modder post a reply in the forum
or have anybody see doca cola oder optec????

i know.  i saw optec here but only for like a minute.  he responded and left, it was like a month ago

hm, i hope they will offer a status report of v3 or any life signal
 

They say nothing. indeed. But 1. They are on vacation and 2. better to say nothing then saying too much and sensless things. itīs ready when itīs ready, still in progress (Thatīs for sure!) ..."but it wonīt be tomorrow" ;)
Give thm 2 more months.
My guess was November 2005 and i was wrong ...now itīs February 2006...

I dunno if iīm crazy...but...all night (for 2 weeks now) Iīm dreaming of playing FleetOps V3...especially Dominion...thatīs a good sign! ;)

rofl me too :)
 

I think Fleet Ops v3 is a ploy by the Japanese mafia to brainwash helpless youths into helping them build a time machine off of captured soviet blueprints.

WHAT?  :lol:  

havn't you heard?!

[=!=]RedShirt knows too much we must dispose of him quickly and quietly! :shifty:  

if its not done by next christmas im flying to germany with a crowbar

you are welcome :)

lol
Do the devs live in Germany?

i think so, pretty sure they do.

hmmm I figured it was either germany or the netherlands

GO U.S.!
and europe i guess

Europe = distant second

hehehehe...

england51 then i guess! lol

Ya we rock

i can agree with that

errr yes... rock... thats it.. you rock :huh: =-0 :shifty:  :ph34r:  

BREAKING NEWS:

Earlier this morning, Africa passed Europe up, making Europe distant third.

'Great Briton' emphases on the Great! yea i know US Distant 3rd, dnt see any maps of your empire or colonies, US British, French colony.  :P[/font] sorry guys we ownd your aSSS :lol:  

Let me see:  Peurto Rico, Guam, Midway, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Alasaka, and the Phillipines (we gave the Philipines their independance).

Also, we havn't gotten our ***** kicked by any of OUR colonies.

And you have to consider that in less than 300 years,  the USA has become TWICE the nation "Great" Britain EVER WAS.

still got great in our name dnt we :P  

So you do. So you do.

lol

alaska wasn't a colony. it was part of russia. so uhmm wasn't a colony

The United Kingdom couldn't even keep the eskimos of Canadia in check, and let them become their own nation. It's your fault Celine Dion exists.

</3

just remember who started this by saying

 hint [=!=]RedShirt

and then
folowed by
this was insulting everyone who lives in Eurpoe (that happens to be a lot of people!)

i tryed to stop it by not retaleating and sayed

so i suggest we leave it at that, and not start insolting Nations  ;) it will anger a lot of people!
im sure [=!=]RedShirt was just having a joke so dnt turn this nasty

I also may note that is way political pressure from the US that caused the British to give up their colonial empire.

[=!=]RedShirt shuuuuussssssh!  :blink:

oh well that is still Brittain, France nad even Holland still has colonies

Ahhhem, the US still has Peurto Rico, Midway, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Hawaii.

Hawaii isn't a colony it is the 53rd state :D

Isn't this supposed to be to do with FO: V3?


If those count as colonys Britian still has:

The Falkland Islands
Acension
Gibraltar
Halleys (in antartica)
Picairn Islands
South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia
Channel Islands

Does that give us more than america?   :P
 

and then we can start mentioning the common wealth...
plus fance, spain, germany, and many more all had empires, America Hasn't, so Eurpoe 1st Ameica last, even africa has had some kind of empire. plus you all come from eurpoe any ways, you are all imagrent on to the american continet, :P  

Lets not start mentioning the commonwealth we will be here all week, but basically they all still serve the crown of england so...

The only bad thing about the commonwealth is that australia always win the commonwealth games, lol

yea they do, but they diserve to they very good! which makes it real;y interesting when some1 else suddenly starts beating them for one year

Whoa!  53rd?  Where'd you come up with that number?!  

ok i am not an state expert, i think there are 53 states in america or 51. but hawaii is one of the states

i thought there were 51 states, and hawaii was the last to join hense hawaii51 it's the 51st

There are 50 states.  Hawaii was either 49th or 50th.  Most likely 50th.

ahh yes your right Hawaii50, 50 states

so that measn hawaii isn't a colony

yep!

NO FRAKING DUH GENIUS- THE ONLY COLONIES ARE IN THE FRAKING CARIBEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  and there not colonies

You just contradicted yourself

suffice to say britain has more colonys than america, indeed america was a conlony of britain.

We lost it on the grounds that we couldn't send enough troops over the atlantic in the middle of a war with France.

england did not lose the revolutary war persay so much as they relized that since they were the largest empire in the world America would have to trade with them so they would get the money they wanted from trade anyway but this way the would not have to pay the overhead costes of governing and protecting the united states so they pulled out so they could spend more of there resources elsewhere.

Uh... yeah they did.

The only way they could have possibly won was complete and total occupation, because no matter where their armies went and defeated someone, another militia popped up somewhere else. Also, the americans used better tactics: hit and run, taking cover, etc etc, instead of the british "lets all walk in a small group and take turns shooting".

Their casualty rate was much higher, they didn't win as many battles... and then toward the end, we got help from the french navy on top of that.

And then General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington on Oct 17, 1781 during the Battle of Yorktown (Oct 6 - 19). Aside from a few minor skirmishes after that, fighting stopped between the Americans and the British.

The British prime minister, Lord Frederick North, resigned after Cornwallis's surrender. The new leaders signed the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which officially ended the American Revolution.

The Treaty of Paris basically officiated the colonies moving to their own possession as the USA, and be officially recognized by everyone else as their own entity, and a bunch of other stuff that was pretty minor (like fishing rights and such).

But anyway... why are we talking about this stuff in the developers' diary? o.O Talk about thread derailment...

did you look those dates up or do you really don't have a life?  :rolleyes:  

Since hes from US, where this war is far more important than it is too us Europeans, he might just know them :D

well, yeah, but still...

PS: is this off topic OR IS THIS OFF TOPIC

think we might be off topic :shifty:  

yep, deffinately off topic

btw BRITAIN ROCKS  :D
   except from the stinkin weather  :hmmm:

 :2guns::assimilate:  

Have america even won a war on there own, I can't think of one.
Any time they have tried they have lost.
lol BRITAIN ROCKS  

the resion america has not won  war on there one is they let the politishions run it insted of the militery learders

war is a far too important thing to be intrusted to the military.

or politicians either.

now back on topic. um... hmm... can’t wait till V3 comes out. and yes that’s the best I could come up with.

off topic discussions are so great! I lovm!
@stue...You forgot one important thing: Traditional food. Itīs so disgusting :x  .

no updates in the developers diary yet then :rolleyes:  

all i hear is nonesence so i guess no....

darn that last critical task

@jan

not all of it, i like haggis,meeps and tatties :P
dam that lousy deep fried mars bar :x  

oops forgot:

 :2guns:  :assimilate:

or

 :guns:  :guns:  :borg:  :borg:  :assimilate:

btw GO SCOTLAND RUGBY TEAM
 

yea the six nation's rugby is real good!, of cource i hope england win,  :sweatdrop:  

im sorry for englands loss to us scots.....

 :lol:&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;&nbsp;&nsbp;  :fish:  

i am fro great brittain. gives me atleast 50% that they win :D

yea the scotts owned us! lol they played realy good, i hope they win!

well im sure you will beat us next time

(whirly dream sound effects).. (In a trance-like voice)Your mind is being taken over. (You go into a trance) From now on no more posting politics, sports or WORLD HISToRy. From now on only talk about Star Trek Armada 2. Now when I snap my fingers you will wake up.

(snap)

Now thats that's over. Where's the updates plz?

MAN! You made me jumping out of my window! Now I've two broken legs and have to wear a nasty thing around my nack! Shame on you boon! If you do this again then learn how to do it right!  :mad:   :wheelchair: